Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Williams Haines, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Williams Haines registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 6, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Williams Haines
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Williams Haines
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Haines in Brazoria County
- Henry Hainesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1837
Haineses elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 10 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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